Last Granada closedown | Friday 12 into Saturday 13 February 1988 

I was 13 when I fell in love with Colin Weston he was announced at time on Anglia television how amazing to see this all these years later!! It was 1971/2 that I absolutely worshiped this guy all my school friends were into Donny Osmond and David Cassidy !!! To me they could not hold candle to Colin!! He left Anglia television sometime in 1972 at 14 I cried for week or more!! Happy innocent days xx

I don't mind 24 hour TV, as long as they show actual programs, instead of infomercials.

@@johnpat3622 it was the late 00s that itv night time went 💩 with the phone in games

​​@@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 Yep. All that "casino" crap. I swear those shows are mostly silence while the presenters wait for some lonely sod to ring in.

@@d2dar459 they got most lonely people back then. When i couldn't sleep before 2010 and watching TV during the night i fancied some of the male presenters in black suits. (BUT never joined in those casino shows)

@@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 Good. Lol. (For not joining in with the casinos).

Ah Youre from Texas

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And Stevie thinks that's good filler material for a night-time schedule.

It was used as an endcap on the first edition of a shorted lived series from 1988 called The Funny Side which was hosted by the late Mike Smith but for the rest of the series the blue & yellow Granada endcap was shown.

The reflection was, although the arrangement of the landmarks wasn't.

*2.56, actually.

I would guess that that was the case then indeed so too of course-but who knows I wonder too?!

So boring?

Lol typical predictive text. It should of read I wish tv toady was just the same as it was in 1988. Tv today is so boring.

@@TheImatube tv today is no doubt better than tv in 1988

I should also add that there is a group on Facebook dedicated to ITV continuity announcers, and Colin Weston has joined the group under his real name. :o)

@@antster1983 could you send me the link to facebook group dedicated to itv continuity announcers please as id love to join the group

+David Cummings As it saying in the description, and he says in the video itself... Colin Weston.

You've heard of Weston-super-Mare - here's Weston-super-Fluff! Worked for Tyne-Tees and even Anglia at some point in his career - and even did a stint on Yorkshire - a station who thought that they were a radio station, as their announcers worked out-of-vision!

No it wasn't.

+Pham MaiAnh SCARY High Pitched Test Card to be precise :)

That is so true, Shutting down and switching on the tv transmitters every day was damaging transmitter antenna circults, Some morning the tv channels didn't come on due to bad weather or technical faults, Now a days it either on Standby or Shopping Channels taking over the night shifts.

First Last I do...Being a night owl has benefits.

@@imrustyokay Yes, yes it does.

Night shift workers do exist!

@@christopherhulse8385 Yes, of course they do. I wrote that 6 years ago. I just really like this clip. The way they say good night is just lovely.

Pretty much no. A TV 'day' runs from 6AM-5:59AM

@@chriswathen9612 ​ @Chris Wathen Well, it's about time TV stations geared themselves to the 24-hour cycle, midnight to midnight. *Gone are the days when TV stations "signed off" at 11.00pm or midnight and shut down their transmitters.*

Well the Radio Times, TV Times, and all the other listings magazines/papers show that the day/night runs from 6.00am to 6.00am indeed. Odd though it is, this is how they show it somehow I guess too?!

@@neilforbes416 WTF are you actually chatting? Stations routinely carried on past midnight in the 1970's which will be why the broadcast day didn't reset at midnight. The reason the 6AM cutoff has ended up coming about is firstly that was when breakfast programmes eventually ended up starting to mark a new day and by extension when 24 hour TV became standard that was the latest the previous broadcast day could continue. In order to have a fixed transition of one broadcast day to another then there must be a fixed point in the schedule where every channel has a junction and it would be very difficult to try and retrofit that back to be midnight. It's ended up that 6AM is far more convenient to mark the start of a new day which is what pretty much every channel has ended up running with.

@@chriswathen9612 Well, it's *NOT* every "channel", it's every *STATION!* Channels have *NO* physical entity, they are merely chunks of spectrum space on which several stations can transmit signals provided they are geographically well separated(150 or more miles apart). *STATIONS* are the large buildings that occupy large chunks of real estate in any city or regional town, and employ hundreds, if not thousands of people in various roles. Now back to my original comment. In the days before 24-hour broadcasting, a TV *station's* entire schedule would be contained *within* one calendar day(that is, within the same period of, for example, 1st May, 1969). The *station* would switch on its transmitter and transmit a test pattern and music up to a given instant when the day's programmes are scheduled to start(about 8.00am for example) then continue until about 11.00pm or up to midnight, but not much beyond midnight(perhaps 25 minutes up to half-an-hour). All "Breakfast News" did was stretch the broadcast day by a couple of hours, *inside the calendar day.* But now stations go 24 hours, transmitting digitally, so if you call up the *Electronic Programme Guide* on your TV or set-top-box, you'll see the last scheduled programme of a day starts around half-an-hour before midnight and is the last show on the *EPG* list for that day. If you nudge the list to the next scheduled programme, you'd see the date shown has advanced. These digital TVs and set-top-boxes clearly recognise the broadcast day *correctly* as from Midnight to Midnight. It's time the *stations* fell in line.

I found it, it's called the "New Granada Theme" and is available at this address... audioboom.com/boos/475219-new-granada-theme-long-closing

Phil, I owe you one.

If I get the radio show, that's how I intend on ending my broadcasts every time I'm on. Say my good byes, and then play it for the last two minutes of the show

@@andymerrett I did, and it was indeed on my radio show. It is long since lost now, but it was fun.

I know right. lol

And Nightscreen that is even worse than Teletext.

Nah, KEEP THE 24hrs

+Robert W granada never used the national anthem, which apparently was a shocking example of commercial decadence in 1956...

+HighlandCall wow. good to know. my family hailed from Scotland and (if I'm correct) tv there used it all the time

Granada never played GSTQ,as the bernsteins were Jewish

@@stevebrown4185 nonsense. They played it twice a year on the Queens birthdays. Nothing to do with being Jewish 🤦‍♂️

8th of November was the last time BBC One closed down, meaning that the 9th of November 1997 is when it switched over to BBC News 24 overnight.

I think that BBC2 was the last channel to go 24/7 in about 2004 so I read somewhere but I am not too sure on that though. Thank you anyway and well done though!!

Yes, but only in the middle of the night

Erm I think you'll find that both BBC One and BBC Two still close down at night but they don't go to a black screen. BBC One still closes down and says goodnight to viewers and instead of going to a black screne, it joins the BBC News Channel.

@@meridian2000 not the same thing though is it?

no that came in october of that year not feb

I'm fascinated, Kelvin...how would you know about it, all the way from the Philippines??

I know about it all the way from the United States- and it was 6 years before I was born! The internet can do incredible things.

First Last I miss those days terribly. When all stations here were really regionalised and continuity announcers, almost like a family friend. We all knew their names!! Plus, Granada's lovely closedown music, which sent you off to sleep, no problem. All seems like yesterday...but almost thirty years ago now (heavy sigh). Where did the time go??

Kelvin Oabina i miss the 80s ...

In retrospect it was nice to hear the ‘New Granada Theme’ one last time that night before television began its slow downhill descent. Definitely miss closedowns and personalities on TV, especially ITV

What crap, there is none, shut up

@@sillygoose635 Teleshopping, repeats of Judge Rinder and Tipping Point, Teleshopping with a simulcast of Ideal World and Nightscreen is good overnight TV is it?

Um, no.

Stevie xd

YEAH and have you ever seen or hear or Lucky star?

That was when they merged with carlton then to form the single itv then so too.

Isn't that the charm of regional TV? Christmas Day round yours must be a scream..